Fowl-stuffing retainer



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FQWL-STUFFING RETAINER I Filed Sept. '7, 1937 2 2 I I 12222822207. 3 l'dwardMflr h flltorne y.

Patented May 28, 1 940 1 V A A e l I I UNITED' STATES PATENT I OFFICE I 2,2 o2,512 rownsrUFrme RETAINER Edward N. Archer, Inglewood, Calif. Application September 7, 1937, Serial No. 162.679

1 Claim. (o1., 1-i-11) I My invention has to do with cooking appliances In using my device, the fowl is first stuffed and relates particularly to devices for retaining through slit I0, after which plate I5 is inserted the stuifing in fowls during the cooking. through'the slit so that its top face rests against One of the principal objects of my invention the inner surfaceof the skin of the fowl around 5 is to provide a device which may be easily apthe slit. When the bottom plate It isthus posiplied to and removed from the fowl without. tionedgthet p plate 16 is applied by slid n it piercing th ki th ofl v laterally onto the stud by virtue offslot 23, and

Another object is to provide a device which the thumb nut 20 is screwed'down'until the skin effectively retains the stufilng in the fowlunder of the fowl around the slit I0 is compressed beall conditions of handling. tween plates l5 and I6 sufliciently to hold the i A still further object is to, produce a device slit closed and the 'stufling in during cooking. which, when not in use, does not become disas- The shoulder, l8 may be provided to prevent the sembled and thus prevents the loss of parts. skin of the,. fowl from being compressed .too

A further object is toiprovide a device which I tightly betweenthe plates; ,I II

15 may be economically manufactured and which While the platesmay be made of'any suitable presents no'sharppoints to injure the user. Still material capable of freely passing the heat to further objects will become apparent from the enable cooking of the skin resting between the following description of one preferred form of the plates, I prefer to make them of aluminum. invention which I have chosen for illustrative When the cooking operation is completed, the

purposes. 1 I thumb nut is released, the outer plate l6 slid oif To aid the followin description, I shall make the stud and the bottom plate I5 is removed reference to the accompanying drawing, in through theslit, the oval shape of the plate facilwhich: p v x I itating such removal without tearing the skin of Fig. l is a perspective view showing my device the fowl. After being thus removed, the device applied to a fowl: Y may be again assembled and the thumb nut 25 Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective showing the screwed down to retain the top plate in position various parts of my device; and on the bottom plate so that the, parts will not be- Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the come separated and lost. device taken on the line 3-3 ofFig. 1. While I have resorted in the foregoing de- 3 In the drawing, the stuffed fowl is shown at F, scription' to various details of construction and the stufiing having been applied through a slit combinationa-I wish it understood that my in- IQ (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1) in the fowl. vention, in its broader aspects, is not to be re- My stufiing retaining device consists of two stricted to such details. On the contrary, it is substantially oval plates [5 and I6, which plates to be restricted only as appears from the append- I are preferably concave-convex in cross-section. ed claim. I The bottom plate I5 is adapted to be inserted I I claim: into the fowl through the slit, and carries at its A device for closing a slit in the skin of a center a screw-threaded stud l1 whose lower end stuffed fowl, that includes a thin' oval plate of is formed integral with or suitably securedto concavo-convex section adapted to be inserted 40 the plate. At the plate, stud I! may be prothrough the slit and to underlie the skin sur- 5 stud. A thumb nut 20 is threaded onto stud l'l, studprojection from the central portion of the bottom plate I5, and has a hole 22 at its center peripheral portions,wherebythe two platesare vided with a shoulder I8 for the purpose hereinrounding the slit with its convex face outward, after stated, said shoulder being provided by a thin oval plate of concave-convex section making that part of the stud of increased (11- adapted to overlie the skin surrounding the slit ameter or by a ring or washerapplied Ove t with its concave face inward, a screw threaded the outer end of t e tu be P b y e convex face of the first mentioned plate and ed, s at to prevent complete moval of th I through the second mentioned plate, and a nut nut. I T on the stud adapted to force the two plates to- The top plate lB'is preferably smaller than gether to clamp the skin-between their opposed to pass stud H. To facilitate applying and reclamped in position'covering the slit opening. moving plate It, a slot 23 is provided to'pass the I stud into and out of hole 22. I EDWARD N. 

